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ABINGTON, FRANCES (1737-1815)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 64 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ABINGTON, FRANCES (1737-1815) , English actress, was the daughter of a private soldier named
Barton
 , and was, at first, a flower girl and a street singer. She then became servant to a French milliner, obtaining a taste in dress and a knowledge of French which afterwards stood her in good
stead
 . Her first
appearance
  on the stage was at the Haymarket in 1755 as Miranda in Mrs Centlivre's Busybody. In 1756, on the recommendation of Samuel Foote, she became a member of the Drury Lane company, where she was overshadowed by Mrs Pritchard and Kitty
Clive
 . In 1759, after an unhappy
marriage
  with her music-master, one of the royal trumpeters, she is mentioned in the bills as Mrs Abington. Her first success was in Ireland as Lady Townley, and it was only after five years, on the pressing invitation of
Garrick
 , that she returned to Drury Lane. There she remained for eighteen years, being the
original
  of more than thirty important characters, notably Lady Teazle (1797). Her Beatrice, Portia, Desdemona and Ophelia were no less liked than her Miss Hoyden, Biddy Tipkin,
Lucy
  Lockit and Miss Prue. It was in the last character in Love for Love that Reynolds painted his best portrait of her. In 1782 she left Drury Lane for Covent Garden. After an absence from the stage from 1790 until 1797, she reappeared, quitting it finally in 1799. Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin. Women of fashion copied her frocks,-and a head-dress she wore was widely
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adopted and known as the " Abington cap." She died on the 4th of March 1815.


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